Pocketbook



Dec. 15, 1936. ASHKENAS Q 2,064,333

POCKETBOOK Filed July 15, 1935 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Dec. 15, 1936 a V UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE POCKETBOOK David Ashkenas, Middletown, N. Y.

Application July 13, 1935, Serial No. 31,262

1 Claim. (C1. 15033) This invention relates to a device for attachon the handle and is attached to the handle by ing articles of apparel such as gloves, handkermeans of a separable fastener 4'. The distance chiefs, and the like to Women's pocketbooks. between the point of permanent attachment of It has been the practice in the past for women the extension of the handle and the separable 5 to carry gloves in the interior of pocketbooks, but fastener is less than the length of the extenthis practice has been attended by distinct dission, which results in the provision of a loop or advantages, especially as far as gloves are conkeeper, beneath which the articles of apparel cerned. It necessitates the opening of the may belocated and secured. pocketbook in order to retrieve the gloves, and. It will be seen that with this construction the 10 of course, with each opening the other contents articles of apparel such as gloves, may securely be of the pocketbook are exposed and liable to loss. held in place and available to the user.

Moreover, because of the small amount of space o What I claim is: within a pocketbook and the enormous amount In a pocketbook, the combination with the back of material carried in the pocketbook by the orof the pocketbook, of a handle permanently se- 15 dinary woman, the gloves are subjected to a cured thereto at both of its ends,an extension of crushing action so that if they are of a frail said handle folded back onto the handle on the nature, they will either be soiled or crumpled. side remote from the back of the pocketbook to The present invention seeks to relieve these form a loop or keeper and having a separable difliculties. fastener adapted to attach its free end to said The drawing represents a perspective view of handle, the distance between the separable fasan embodiment of my invention. tener and the adjacent point of attachment of In the drawing I have shown a pocketbook I, the handle to the back of the pocketbook be- Which is provided with a handle 2, which is pering less than the length of the extension, whereby manently stitched or otherwise secured to the said loop or keeper is formed.

5 pocketbook at itsends. An extension 3 of the handle 2 is bent back DAVID ASHKENAS. 

